I'd be surprised if when Rackspace started using the term 'cloud' they actually changed anything aside from the name of the service, most of this 'the cloud' shit is just renting a server.
Anyone going to apply the same pressure to ALL the other computer/phone companies that use the same facilities?
Logically you would go for the entity with the most influence over the operator of the facilities, that would be Apple.
I know Slashdot has a extreme anti-Apple bias
I don't know what you've been reading but quite clearly the apple threads on/. are full of discussion (well arguments if we're honest) over apple policies and devices, it's not some apple-hater love-in where everyone is just patting eachother on the back for criticizing apple like you seem to think it is.
If you wish to take up all the developmental work that Google was doing.
Yes, isn't that the great thing about free software? That if a big company decides to stop supporting a project - or take it in an undesirable direction - that the development can continue without them?
When you replace a proprietary driver with a free one, it stands to reason that it won't contain any code from the proprietary version.
How does that stand to reason? In fact if they were to move fully to open source drivers the most obvious thing to do would be to open source the existing proprietary ones.
If Ferrari advertises their cars as having a top speed in excess of 200MPH, do we think they ought to be sued because the roads in my country can't handle it and limit the top speed to less than half of what the car is capable of? Sounds nuts now, doesn't it?
Why can't the roads handle it? There's nothing stopping you from using it on a track.
The small print isn't superseding the large print. The iPad you buy WILL be a 4G model. And if and when you are somewhere with 4G it'll be able to use it.
No, have a look at the spectrum used by 4G networks where the ipad is sold (worldwide) and compare with the bands supported by the ipad and you'll find you're wrong.
He said a variation of Windows 8, just like the original XBox OS was based on NT, just like Windows Phone is based on Windows CE, it doesn't make sense to write a new OS kernel for a device like that, just use the one you've got. That doesn't mean 'run Windows 8 on the XBox', it just means use some core pieces that already exist, pretty much all popular devices/systems do this.
Just keep in mind, MS and Sony, that every year your systems age is another year for more of your users to look at their friends' new PC's and say "Wow, that blows away my console!" Being more-and-more obsolete is not a good position to be in in the videogaming world. Every time I've turned away from consoles in the past, it's been because I was impressed by how advanced the PC's had gotten compared to the consoles.
Most of the games industry is focused on consoles (more recently mobile devices) anyway because that's where the profits are. Sure PCs are more powerful but these days games companies want to reach more users across more platforms which means developing for the lowest common denominator. I haven't seen that many PC games that whip the current gen console games aside from cranking up the resolution, which doesn't really matter when you're comparing it to a HDTV that you don't sit particularly close to anyway.
Microsoft lied & denied about the RROD for a full three years until the threat of a very public lawsuit forced them to admit the problem.
Not what I would call being honest.
Even if you were to take it from the very first release date up until the official open letter about it was published that still falls well short of 2 years, much less 3. Not saying that's ok but suggesting it was 3 years is a bit of a stretch.
...and 40M+ iPad 2 buyers are wrong in my opinion.
For me, spending money on an iPad is a waste of money - I have no real need for it. I'd like to have one, but when I think of it, it's just a gadget - an uncessary purchase.
So people are wrong to make purchases of things that they don't necessarily need? Not everything has to be purely utilitarian.
The other day, I talked a young woman out of buying an iPhone - I think. I asked her, "Why do you really need it." She just wanted a smart phone, especailly an iPhone because it's a fashion accessory.
Realistically the iphone is the most common smartphone in the world, they are the Nokia of the smartphone world, it's hardly a fashion accessory when high-profile business people have the same phone as 15 year-olds at McDonalds. But even then, what's wrong with that? Your philosophy is that you shouldn't buy something unless you really need it?
And we don't spend money on crap like the this.
You wrote that you'd like to have one and now you're writing that it's crap and seem to be justifying that based on what you can afford.
Can you play movies from those or open documents and stuff? Like load up a USB stick or portable HDD or whatever, plug it in and open them on the ipad?
You must have a 19" TV right? That 60" TV is 1080p too so what's the point?
You sit closer to one than the other, the closer you are to the screen the higher DPI you need. Tim Cook didn't pull off the RDF particularly well but it still sucked a lot of people in when he compared the new ipad size/resolution to HDTV size/resolution...ignoring the fact that no-one is sitting 15"s from their HDTV (a more appropriate comparison would be PC/laptop screens). DPI is only relevant if you know the distance between the screen and the viewer, a point he was quick to make when justifying the ipad's lower DPI vs the iphone.
I think this is the best way to convert people to OSS. Start slowly by showing them how can run free, non-Microsoft, non-Apple software. Then after a year or two, transition them to Linux.
What i've found hard is answering the question of 'why'. For the average user who is currently using Windows or OSX i've never been able to make a compelling argument for them to transition to Linux, sure it's free but the cost of the OS is negligible when they purchase their machine so that's no incentive. It's great to hack around with the source code, but most people who just use computers have no interest in that. At the application level it makes sense if they are making a purchasing decision, don't want to pay for Photoshop or Aperture/MAX or Maya? Try GIMP/Blender, if you don't like it that's fine, you haven't lost anything, it was free. Same goes for MS Office/iWork and Libre/Open Office. But it's hard to find an argument that they actually care about for them to transition.
based on the suicide rate in Chine, the FoxConn suicides are less then the national average for that many people.
I mean 'Grrr Foxconn makes people commit suicide grrrrr ignore actual facts...gtrr hate hate hate.
Sigh. Instead of Hate Hate Hate, can we Think Think Think?
You could set an example by thinking and/or researching about how those numbers are put together. Do those numbers for Foxconn take into account ex-employees? Do they take into account suicides of employees outside of Foxconn premises? What high-suicide risk demographics - if any - does Foxconn employ? Obviously if you ignore these clearly pertinent details the numbers could very easily skew in favor of Foxconn.
Before you draw conclusions on evidence like that you probably need to take your own advice and 'Think Think Think'.
If I don't have a spot of their software on the premises, I don't give half a shit about how they word their agreements. You want into my company? Why? Oh, you accuse me of copyright infringement?
The bit i like in the article is this: '“If a company continues to deny that it’s using illegal software, against all the evidence, then the BSA may resort to legal action via the courts.”
I'd like to know the extent of the 'evidence' they ever have.
Someone who wanted an instant backup, who wanted high quality cover art and liner notes. Someone who like to display his or her music collection on shelves. If they quadrupled the sampling rate and doubled the bit depth, audiophiles would buy them because they would truly be high fidelity if played through audiohphile quality equipment (especially speakers).
Audiophiles certainly would, i reckon you're definitely right there, there's a market for that, the question is whether it's big enough to support the industry.
How is a download "more convinient" than unwrapping a CD, putting it in the drive, and clicking?
Obviously because I don't have to go out to a shop and buy it or buy it online and wait for it to be delivered. If i want it i can just download it straight away.
I can legally get as good a quality rip as an iTunes download by simply sampling the radio.
Well again, it's convenience, if it's on digital radio and the song you want happens to come on when you want it and you're recording it, then yes, but that's hardly convenient.
Right. It's just all the bits I quoted and responded to it affects.
Wrong again, the addition of 'approximately' doesn't change anything aside from removing the idea that it is exactly equal and given it's a comparison of different design elements there cannot be an exact equality anyway because the weight of design elements is subjective. Something you obviously don't understand which is why you're the only one who has read it that is having such difficulty with it.
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Microsoft is just following standard protocol with Nokia. What makes you think the business model has *ever* changed? Why? Well look no further than:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. where are we at with Nokia again? What always comes first?
You think they're trying to embrace, extend and extinguish Nokia? What would be the point of that?
There was life before the "cloud".
I'd be surprised if when Rackspace started using the term 'cloud' they actually changed anything aside from the name of the service, most of this 'the cloud' shit is just renting a server.
He's got a strongly worded letter!
Anyone going to apply the same pressure to ALL the other computer/phone companies that use the same facilities?
Logically you would go for the entity with the most influence over the operator of the facilities, that would be Apple.
I know Slashdot has a extreme anti-Apple bias
I don't know what you've been reading but quite clearly the apple threads on /. are full of discussion (well arguments if we're honest) over apple policies and devices, it's not some apple-hater love-in where everyone is just patting eachother on the back for criticizing apple like you seem to think it is.
If you wish to take up all the developmental work that Google was doing.
Yes, isn't that the great thing about free software? That if a big company decides to stop supporting a project - or take it in an undesirable direction - that the development can continue without them?
And nobody ever installs Windows, themselves, either, on a notebook. So don't even go there.
Yeah, for example i'm sure nobody has ever used Bootcamp on a Mac.
When you replace a proprietary driver with a free one, it stands to reason that it won't contain any code from the proprietary version.
How does that stand to reason? In fact if they were to move fully to open source drivers the most obvious thing to do would be to open source the existing proprietary ones.
I thought there was security issues from buying parts in countries we don't particularly trust.
Only when they aren't significantly cheaper.
Interesting that this Mac exploit only applies to Mac users who use Microsoft Word.
The bug they reference in TFA appears to have been patched years ago, so would appear it's only on old systems that haven't been updated in years.
Apple exploit found in the wild... targets Microsoft product running on Apple OS.
From TFA:
An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.
http://labs.alienvault.com/labs/index.php/2012/ms-office-exploit-that-targets-macos-x-seen-in-the-wild-delivers-mac-control-rat/
Is that an exaggerated statement or does it indicate some kind of privilege escalation bug in OSX?
If Ferrari advertises their cars as having a top speed in excess of 200MPH, do we think they ought to be sued because the roads in my country can't handle it and limit the top speed to less than half of what the car is capable of? Sounds nuts now, doesn't it?
Why can't the roads handle it? There's nothing stopping you from using it on a track.
The small print isn't superseding the large print. The iPad you buy WILL be a 4G model. And if and when you are somewhere with 4G it'll be able to use it.
No, have a look at the spectrum used by 4G networks where the ipad is sold (worldwide) and compare with the bands supported by the ipad and you'll find you're wrong.
That's fine if the weather is always calm, but at sea it often isn't. Then there's the issue of how you power it.
who wants to buy a game for a dying console?
People who want to play the game and have the console? I don't see anything wrong with buying a game to play on a console about to be superseded.
I highly doubt this and I'll tell you why.
He said a variation of Windows 8, just like the original XBox OS was based on NT, just like Windows Phone is based on Windows CE, it doesn't make sense to write a new OS kernel for a device like that, just use the one you've got. That doesn't mean 'run Windows 8 on the XBox', it just means use some core pieces that already exist, pretty much all popular devices/systems do this.
Just keep in mind, MS and Sony, that every year your systems age is another year for more of your users to look at their friends' new PC's and say "Wow, that blows away my console!" Being more-and-more obsolete is not a good position to be in in the videogaming world. Every time I've turned away from consoles in the past, it's been because I was impressed by how advanced the PC's had gotten compared to the consoles.
Most of the games industry is focused on consoles (more recently mobile devices) anyway because that's where the profits are. Sure PCs are more powerful but these days games companies want to reach more users across more platforms which means developing for the lowest common denominator. I haven't seen that many PC games that whip the current gen console games aside from cranking up the resolution, which doesn't really matter when you're comparing it to a HDTV that you don't sit particularly close to anyway.
Microsoft lied & denied about the RROD for a full three years until the threat of a very public lawsuit forced them to admit the problem.
Not what I would call being honest.
Even if you were to take it from the very first release date up until the official open letter about it was published that still falls well short of 2 years, much less 3. Not saying that's ok but suggesting it was 3 years is a bit of a stretch.
The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005, in the United States and Canada.
On July 5, 2007, the Vice-President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division published an open letter recognizing the console's problems
...and 40M+ iPad 2 buyers are wrong in my opinion.
For me, spending money on an iPad is a waste of money - I have no real need for it. I'd like to have one, but when I think of it, it's just a gadget - an uncessary purchase.
So people are wrong to make purchases of things that they don't necessarily need? Not everything has to be purely utilitarian.
The other day, I talked a young woman out of buying an iPhone - I think. I asked her, "Why do you really need it." She just wanted a smart phone, especailly an iPhone because it's a fashion accessory.
Realistically the iphone is the most common smartphone in the world, they are the Nokia of the smartphone world, it's hardly a fashion accessory when high-profile business people have the same phone as 15 year-olds at McDonalds. But even then, what's wrong with that? Your philosophy is that you shouldn't buy something unless you really need it?
And we don't spend money on crap like the this.
You wrote that you'd like to have one and now you're writing that it's crap and seem to be justifying that based on what you can afford.
My ipad has a SD card slot and USB port.
Can you play movies from those or open documents and stuff? Like load up a USB stick or portable HDD or whatever, plug it in and open them on the ipad?
You must have a 19" TV right? That 60" TV is 1080p too so what's the point?
You sit closer to one than the other, the closer you are to the screen the higher DPI you need. Tim Cook didn't pull off the RDF particularly well but it still sucked a lot of people in when he compared the new ipad size/resolution to HDTV size/resolution...ignoring the fact that no-one is sitting 15"s from their HDTV (a more appropriate comparison would be PC/laptop screens). DPI is only relevant if you know the distance between the screen and the viewer, a point he was quick to make when justifying the ipad's lower DPI vs the iphone.
I think this is the best way to convert people to OSS. Start slowly by showing them how can run free, non-Microsoft, non-Apple software. Then after a year or two, transition them to Linux.
What i've found hard is answering the question of 'why'. For the average user who is currently using Windows or OSX i've never been able to make a compelling argument for them to transition to Linux, sure it's free but the cost of the OS is negligible when they purchase their machine so that's no incentive. It's great to hack around with the source code, but most people who just use computers have no interest in that.
At the application level it makes sense if they are making a purchasing decision, don't want to pay for Photoshop or Aperture/MAX or Maya? Try GIMP/Blender, if you don't like it that's fine, you haven't lost anything, it was free. Same goes for MS Office/iWork and Libre/Open Office. But it's hard to find an argument that they actually care about for them to transition.
based on the suicide rate in Chine, the FoxConn suicides are less then the national average for that many people.
I mean 'Grrr Foxconn makes people commit suicide grrrrr ignore actual facts...gtrr hate hate hate.
Sigh. Instead of Hate Hate Hate, can we Think Think Think?
You could set an example by thinking and/or researching about how those numbers are put together. Do those numbers for Foxconn take into account ex-employees? Do they take into account suicides of employees outside of Foxconn premises? What high-suicide risk demographics - if any - does Foxconn employ? Obviously if you ignore these clearly pertinent details the numbers could very easily skew in favor of Foxconn.
Before you draw conclusions on evidence like that you probably need to take your own advice and 'Think Think Think'.
If I don't have a spot of their software on the premises, I don't give half a shit about how they word their agreements. You want into my company? Why? Oh, you accuse me of copyright infringement?
The bit i like in the article is this: '“If a company continues to deny that it’s using illegal software, against all the evidence, then the BSA may resort to legal action via the courts.”
I'd like to know the extent of the 'evidence' they ever have.
Someone who wanted an instant backup, who wanted high quality cover art and liner notes. Someone who like to display his or her music collection on shelves. If they quadrupled the sampling rate and doubled the bit depth, audiophiles would buy them because they would truly be high fidelity if played through audiohphile quality equipment (especially speakers).
Audiophiles certainly would, i reckon you're definitely right there, there's a market for that, the question is whether it's big enough to support the industry.
How is a download "more convinient" than unwrapping a CD, putting it in the drive, and clicking?
Obviously because I don't have to go out to a shop and buy it or buy it online and wait for it to be delivered. If i want it i can just download it straight away.
I can legally get as good a quality rip as an iTunes download by simply sampling the radio.
Well again, it's convenience, if it's on digital radio and the song you want happens to come on when you want it and you're recording it, then yes, but that's hardly convenient.
Right. It's just all the bits I quoted and responded to it affects.
Wrong again, the addition of 'approximately' doesn't change anything aside from removing the idea that it is exactly equal and given it's a comparison of different design elements there cannot be an exact equality anyway because the weight of design elements is subjective. Something you obviously don't understand which is why you're the only one who has read it that is having such difficulty with it.